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homeland|ˈhəʊmlænd|
a. The land which is one's home or where one's home is; one's native land. In earliest use attrib. = home n. 15 d.
1670R. Blome Treat. Trav. & Traff. 53 Another sort of Merchants, which may be termed Homeland-Traders..who drive a trade to Scotland and Ireland. 1833I. Taylor Fanat. v. 139 A homeland densely peopled. 1874Green Short Hist. i. §i. 4 The gods whom our English fathers worshipped in their English home-land. 1887Home Missionary (N.Y.) Feb. 385 [Nebraska] was the native home⁓land of the buffalo. 1941W. S. Churchill in Second World War (1950) III. 583 We should therefore face now the problems..of driving Japan back to her homelands and regaining undisputed mastery in the Pacific. 1963Ann. Reg. 1962 314 A series of ‘independent’ Bantu ‘homelands’, where each ethnic group would have a vote. 1968G. Jones Hist. Vikings iii. i. 145 The political and dynastic history of the Scandinavian homelands. 1970Caribbean Studies July 90 With such chronological spacing for Homeland English..it is not surprising that..English usage in colonised places also had its period of graduation before being lexicographically chronicled, and..that such chronicles should be..modest imitations of the recognised Homeland product. 1970Nature 24 Oct. 311/2 One of the regions of South Africa now set aside as a ‘homeland’ for the native population.
b. = home n.1 6.
c1892C. Bingham Song, The Dear Home-Land. 1899Daily News 26 Oct. 7/1 Looking..at the old Home⁓land through the eyes of Young Australia. 1905Daily Chron. 22 June 6/6 We are here to-night..a body of Canadian business men, chiefly in order that we may learn to know the people of the homeland. 1907Scott & Wallas (title) The call of the Homeland: a collection of English verse.
▸ homeland security n. national security, now esp. with respect to the threat of terrorism within a country's borders.
The term gained new prominence with the creation in the United States of the Office of Homeland Security (in 2001) and the Department of Homeland Security (in 2002) in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
1935H. Saito Japan's Policies & Purposes 121 It would not be essential to any Western nation's proper *homeland security to go to war. 2001Time 8 Oct. 33/1 President Bush has proposed an Office of Homeland Security..with powers matching those of the National Security Council. 2002Nation (N.Y.) 29 Apr. 6/2 We should not ask Israelis to stop their war against terrorists until they have achieved greater homeland security. 2006Times (Nexis) 13 Oct. 8 The Conservative spokesman on homeland security..has criticised the time it has taken the Ministry of Defence to carry out this investigation. |